Easter Greeting

[_Ray A]

Let's instead start with the fifth-columnists who think they are pillars of dialogue and reason, but who are really just shameless cowards afraid to avow publicly what they secretly believe.

I presume you're referring to shameless cowards like Paul Johnson, who lectured us all about morality and "immoral intellectuals", only to be caught with his pants down having an affair behind his wife's back. Did Hitchens ever have a field day taking the mickey out of him. With the high percentage of porn in Utah, I suspect that a lot of this is going unreported, and uncovered in many "priesthood" homes. Little factories out of control.

It also reminds me of shameless "prophets" who teach monogamy, but, too cowardly to say so publicly, drop their zippers for 14-16 year olds behind closed doors, then call them prostitutes when they dob him in. I would say that's going pretty close to pedophilia.

I would think, with the history of your cowardly, immoral prophet, you'd be the last one to talk about "cowdardice". You obviously have no shame. And it's no wonder your current crop of "prophets" don't want any of this known to the "Iron Rodders". Your whole Church is one big Cognitive Dissonant Con. So wash your finger before you point it at others.

[_Ray A]

I have to admit that I'm astonished at how my little "Easter Greeting" thread, very positive and inoffensive, has been twisted into what it has become.

Willie Wanker started it. Does he ever not start it?

[_William Schryver]

As far as my warning to you is concerned, and your seeming inability to receive it, I can only react by saying, “Don’t blame the messenger.”

Sort of like, "don't blame the arsonist, he didn't plan on the fire killing 129 people".

I am disheartened that you don’t seem to have responded very well to its message. Maybe it was the language I chose to convey it in. Oh, well … I thought it would be the best way to make it clear to you. Apparently not.

You are so religiously deranged that I must not only now warn, but advise my children to seek official name withdrawal from your twisted Church. My worst nightmare would be thinking a religiously morbid mind like yours might ever have a chance of infecting them. I shudder to think how characters like you might divide normal people. Formerly, I advised them to treat the Church with respect, but my brief re-soujourn on MAD, along with you, has convinced me that Dawkins was right - Mormonism is a virus.

In any event, I feel I must confirm the warning and its accompanying predictions of want and woe, should you continue on the path you have chosen. So don’t ever say no one warned you. I have.

You so remind me of Mullah "fulla bulla" Nasrudin.

Do you see what I mean, Shades?

I'm not saying it happens to all of them, but for many (and Ray is a case in point) it's like a certain part of their brain gets cauterized the instant they walk out the chapel door with the intent of never returning.

Weird!

[_Ray A]

Do you see what I mean, Shades?

I'm not saying it happens to all of them, but for many (and Ray is a case in point) it's like a certain part of their brain gets cauterized the instant they walk out the chapel door with the intent of never returning.

Weird!

I'd rather be out of the Church with a cauterised brain than in the Church with a religiously deformed one. Thank God your likes are very, very rare in Australia, and they usually get shut up pretty quick because they are such an embarrassment.
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[_William Schryver]

Do you see what I mean, Shades?

I'm not saying it happens to all of them, but for many (and Ray is a case in point) it's like a certain part of their brain gets cauterized the instant they walk out the chapel door with the intent of never returning.

Weird!

I'd rather be out of the Church with a cauterised brain than in the Church with a religiously deformed one. Thank God your likes are very, very rare in Australia, and they usually get shut up pretty quick because they are such an embarrassment.
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You really don't get it, do you Ray?

I mean, the whole thing has simply sailed right over your head, leaving your burned-out irony chip entirely undisturbed by its flight.

Or maybe this is just the consequences of the cursing that has befallen you.

I'll bet that's it!

The sense of irony has ceased to strive with you, and this frightening state of unhinged-ness is the result.
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Well, I've got things to do for a couple hours, but I trust your ravings will continue in my absence.

[_Ray A]

You really don't get it, do you Ray?

I mean, the whole thing has simply sailed right over your head, leaving your burned-out irony chip entirely undisturbed by its flight.

Or maybe this is just the consequences of the cursing that has befallen you.

I'll bet that's it!

The sense of irony has ceased to strive with you, and this frightening state of unhinged-ness is the result.

There's no irony. You can only push a man so much before he will turn on you, no matter how genuine he may have been. Apologists (of every variety) and wanna-be prophets have become experts in making enemies for the Church.

Perhaps, in the long run, we will see that Mister Scratch was right.

Well, I've got things to do for a couple hours, but I trust your ravings will continue in my absence.

Oh, I haven't even started yet. I'm not even off work until Wednesday. Get ready for Scratch II, Windows XP and Vista all in one.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Just for the record:

I admire Joseph Smith very much, love Mormonism, like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believe that Jesus rose from the dead, seem to be reasonably happy, and think that my mind still functions fairly well.

I also liked this clip, for Easter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFhS0dAduc

Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

[_rcrocket]

Get ready for Scratch II

You are not up to it.

[_Ray A]

You are not up to it.

You don't understand, I have already acknowledged that I don't possess Scratch's intellect, and I freely admit I had to look up the dictionary for some words he used. While I agreed with some things he pointed out, I think he missed a lot in other areas. A lot.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Get ready for Scratch II

Now that's something to look forward to, a goal worth striving for!